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Micheal Sparks, The Kamaelia Project – 20th October

Monday, October 19th, 2009

This month’s talk will be given by Micheal Sparks from the Kamaelia project.

Kamaelia is a free software Python-based systems-development tool and concurrency framework originally developed by BBC Research & Development and subsequently released to the community.

Micheal Sparks has been using GNU/Linux for over 12 years and has been contributing to various free software projects in varying levels for much of that time.

Micheal guides and leads the Kamaelia project and will be explaining what it is and how it works.

The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass O’Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people around a little earlier downstairs(probably sampling the food and drinks on offer). Just ask at the bar if you can’t find us. Their website[3] has full details of how to get there and the fine selection of food and drink available. The venue also provides wifi.

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please contact us.

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Administrative and Social Meeting – 12th October

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The October administrative meeting will be on the second Monday of the month at the usual time and place:

* Date: Monday, 12th October
* Time: 19:00
* Location: The Waterhouse

The meeting is open to everyone and normally lasts about an hour. We stay around for a social meet up afterwards, so it’s a good opportunity to meet up with people and have a chat.

The agenda and the minutes of September’s meeting are available on the FSF Groups wiki. If you have any thing you’d like included please contact us.

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Logo Competition

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Manchester Free Software is having a competition to find a logo for the group.

The winner will receive a hardback copy of Richard Stallman’s “Free Software, Free Society” and a t-shirt with their winning design.

The competition is open until 23:59, Sunday 4th October 2009. The winner will be decided by voting commencing Monday 5th October 2009.

Full details, including how to enter can be found on the wiki page.

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Enrico Zini, Debian Stories – 18th August 2009

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

This month’s talk will be given by Debian Developer, Enrico Zini.

In his own words: “I like to tell stories and I have stories to tell. I will start by covering the recent Debian Conference in Cáceres (Extremadura, Spain), and from there I will continue with stories about Debian, and about how Debian is being used in interesting ways.”

Enrico can be found online at http://www.enricozini.org/

The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass O’Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people around a little earlier downstairs. Just ask at the bar if you can’t find us. Their website has full details of how to get there and the fine selection of food and drink available. The venue also provides free wifi.

General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be found on our meetings page.

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please contact us.

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Dan Lynch, Audio Production with Free Software – 21st July

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

This month’s talk will be given by the prolific podcaster and musician, Dan Lynch. Dan will be giving a talk entitled “Professional Audio Production With Free Software”. Where he’ll be going through the free software tools he uses to make the Software Freedom Law Show amongst other podcasts. He’ll do a live demo (hopefully) and cut together a quick example podcast. He’ll also talk a bit about audio in general on GNU/Linux and discuss areas where it could be improved in comparison to proprietary software.

Dan is currently involved in the Linux Outlaws, Software Freedom Law Show and Rathole Radio podcasts. A selection of Dan’s music is available at shedmusic.net.

The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass O’Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people around a little earlier downstairs(probably sampling the food and drinks on offer). Just ask at the bar if you can’t find us. Their website has full details of how to get there and the fine selection of food and drink available. The venue also provides wifi.
General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be found on our meetings page.

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please contact us.

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Administrative Meeting – 13th July

Monday, July 6th, 2009

The July administrative meeting will be on the second Monday of the month at the usual time and place:

The meeting is open to everyone and normally lasts about an hour. We stay around for a social meet up afterwards, so it’s a good opportunity to meet up with people and have a chat.

The agenda and the minutes of June’s meeting is available on the FSF Groups wiki. If you have any thing you’d like included please contact us.

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Administrative Meeting – 8th June

Monday, June 1st, 2009

The June administrative meeting will be on the second Monday of the month at the usual time and place:

The meeting is open to everyone and normally lasts about an hour. We stay around for a social meet up afterwards, so it’s a good opportunity to meet up with people and have a chat.

The agenda and the minutes of May’s meeting will be available on the FSF Groups wiki before the meeting. If you have any thing you’d like included please contact us.

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Free Software Action Alert – Euro Elections 2009

Monday, May 25th, 2009

The elections for the European Parliament are very close.  The action started by Manchester Free Software has been taken up by the Free Software Foundation. See the Euro Elections 2009 wiki page for a sample letter, drafted by our very own Dave Page, with explicit references to software patents and the Stephen Fry software video.

Please propagate this far and wide—the elections are not far away, but we can at least raise awareness of free software among the new MEPs.

Subject: [FSF] Free Software Action Alert!
From: Peter Brown <peterb@fsf.org>

Dear Free Software Supporter,

The upcoming European parliament elections give the free software movement an opportunity to educate the candidates to the importance of protecting free software from bad legislation involving software patents, interoperability and net neutrality. The French free software association April has organized the Free Software Pact initiative, but they need your help. In particular, candidates in the UK need to be contacted immediately.

Mark Taylor, the coordinator for the Free Software Pact in the UK, said, The current UK Government is embarrassingly behind the rest of Europe in formulating public policy on the use of free software. Across the rest of the continent we see significant adoption and political support for free software. The Free software Pact is therefore an ideal way to draw attention to the reform the UK public sector needs and the enormous cost savings yet to be realized. For too long the UK has been dependent on the relationship with proprietary software companies like Microsoft, who are hell-bent on keeping our politicians confused on this matter. If you care about this situation, and the resulting cost to our economy, society and political culture, please contact the MEP candidates in your region and ask them to sign the Free Software Pact.

Help the campaign now by visiting: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Euro_Elections_2009 .

–
Peter T. Brown
Executive Director
Free Software Foundation
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org

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